Fish-trap.



J. E. PHAR@ 6. w. s. BENJMVIINl l FISH TRAP. APPLIOATION FILED JAN.1'2f191z.

106'2;849,. Patented May 27, 1913.

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CQLUMBIA FLANOGRAPH CD., WASHINGTON n C J. E. PHARO a W. S. BENJAMIN.

FISH TRAP. i APPLICATION FILED JAN. l2, 1912.

,062,849. Patented May 27, 1913.

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cuLUMEIA PLANDGRAPH co.,wAsmNuToN, D. c,

y UNITEij sTATEs PATENT oFFioE.

JAMES E. PHARO AND WILLIAM S. BENJAMIN, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

y FISH-TRAP. n

T0 all 'whom it may concern.'

Be it known that we, JAMES E. PHARO and WILLIAM S. BENJAMIN, citizens ofthe United States7 residing at Seattle, in the county of King and Stateof Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFish-Traps, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to iish traps; and its object is t-he improvementinthe con struction of the framework to which the trap netting isattached and aii'ording a trap which is adapted to be removably set upand operated in water having a shifting bottom or otherwise.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a durable andrelatively inexpensive framework of this character and which may bereadily erected at selected situations or removed therefrom; and may becapable of withstanding the strains or stresses to which it may besubjected in exposed Places.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1 is a diagrammatic plan view of the ordinary type of fish trapswith our invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of thesame. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary end elevation taken at the left hand sideof Fig. 1. Fig. l is an elevational view of one of the towersupportssuch as utilized for the trap lead Fig. 5 is a top plan view ofthe support shown in the preceding view. Fig. 6 is a detail crosssectional view taken through (3f-6 of Fig. 3.

Referring to Fig. 1, 10 designates what is conventionally known in thevart as the trap pot, 11 is the spiller, and 12 and 13 are the heartsThepot 10 communicates with the spiller and also with the adjacent heart12 while the latter communicates with the next heart 13. Extending fromone side of the entrance 14 to the outer heart 13 is a wall 15 or leadso called, for directing the sh into said outer heart. Such members areprovided with walls of netting while in addition thereto the pot andspiller are provided with floors of netting which are joined to therespective Speccaton of Letters Patent.

Patented May 27, 1913.

Application led January 12, 1912. Serial No. 670,830.4

walls of the several compartments tov furnish bag-like nets therefor.Both of said nets depend by their upper edges from horizontal headers,as 17', Figs. 3 and 6, of the trap framework and these nets are furthercharhowever, secured at both their upper and lower edges, respectively,to the headers 1"(2 and tie lines 173 provided therefor. p

The aforedescribed general arrangement of the trap parts is according toa customary and advantageous practice generally existing in theconstruction of fish traps; and have heretofore been erected by the useof aframe structure comprised of driven piles connected by headers andstringere; or in lieu of such frame structure t-he trap and nettingwhich constitutes the walls of the trap elements are hung from oats.

In the present invention the frame work of the trap proper, that is forthe walls of the pot 10, spiller 11 and hearts 12 and 13h75 is formed ofposts 18 having their lower ends inserted within tubular receptacles orVsockets 19 which, in turn, are xedly secured in holes 2O bored ordrilled in the rock bed 21 whereat the trap is to be located. Such 80sockets are suitably disposed to be in rows to suit the various walls ofthe trap elements, and are spaced at distances appropriate to theheights of the different posts which are accommodated and to theconditions of eX- '85 posure to waves, etc., peculiar to the location.Said sockets are secured in place by setting them in cement and are oflengths to extend a distance above the surface of the rock.

Above the water level the posts are each surmounted by a cap 22 providedwith two oppositely directed bracket arms 22 (Fig. 6) which support themembers 17 and 17?V of said headers at the inner and outer sides of theboundary walls of the referred to trap elements andvupon both sides ofthe partition walls of the same. As illustrated, said bracket` arms areformed to embrace the header members upon the inner and outer sides ofeach and which are further secured by a strap 23 extending over themembers and connected at its ends, as by bolts 24, with the ends of thebracket arms and also with the members.

25 represent diagonally arranged rods which are connected with the postsbelow the caps 22 of each and with the sockets 19 of the adjacent posts.The connection between a rod and a post is desirably accomplished byforming an eye on the through apertured ears 27a provided on4 a two-partcollar 26 which is clamped to the post through t-he instrumentality ofsuch bolts. socket is similarly accomplished; that is to say, by meansof a bolt 27 for the rod eye engaging in apertured ears 27b ofV aclamping collar 27 Said rods are each made of two parts with aturn-buckle coupling 28 operating upon screw threads provided upon theends of the rod parts to impart tension upon the rods to afford incooperation with t-he posts a rigid truss. By connecting the rods withthe posts from near their tops and the sockets of the adjacent posts itis obvious that the rods exercise the further function of maintainingthe posts against withdrawal from thesockets.

At the outer corners of the frame for the pot and spiller, as indicatedby A in Fig. 1, we provide reinforcing trusses for rendering thecorner-posts thereat suiciently rigid to withstand the bending strainsto which they are liable. Such reinforcing trusses, as best shown inFig. 3, each comprise a rod 29 connected at its upper end with the likeend of post, while its lower end is connected with the socket for thepost. Intermediate its length the rod 29 is oiset from the post by meansof spaced bars or struts 30 eX- tending from sleeves 31 provided on theost.

p Instead of using posts like those above described, we employ for thelead a plurality of suitably spaced towers. Each such tower comprises anumber of bars, 32, 32, 322 being shown in the views, Figs. 4 and 5,having their upper ends oined together and their lower ends are spreadto afford legs which are inserted in suitably disposed inclined holesprovided therefor in the bed rock, and at the proper station. l

The bars from which the towers are built are desirably of the typeconventionally known as T-bars and in assembling the same and forjoining them at the top, there is placed against the web of the bar 32plates 34 and against the latter are the flanges of the other bars 32and 322. Bolts or rivets are then utilized to bind them firmly in place.Said plates are advantageously of lengths to extend some distance belowwhere the bars begin'to diverge to serve as gussets in tying the bar 32with each of the others.

tance below the water surface.

The connection between a rod and a :bers 172 aredesirablyy connected: tothe tops of the towers, most conveniently by being 'bolted to theflanges of the bars 32 of the same. former to receive a bolt 26extending.

Stringers 39 connect the adjacent posts of the pot and spiller elementsat a dis- Attached to said stringers are eyebolts 40 through which arerove down-haul lines 41' for the lower ends of the nets of thereferredto elements. The other ends of the lines 41 are connectedtocleats 42 which are secured to the headers17.

When the nets are tobe raised for emptying or other purposes, the linesare disengaged from the cleats and a net hauled up as ordinary. Toreplace a net in operative position, the free'ends of the lines arepulled up to cause the ends which are attached to the-net to b e drawndown.

In assembling the trap frame the posts 18 are first set in the varioussockets 19 and secured in place and alsol braced against swaying` byconnecting the staysv 25- and tightening them up by means of the turnbuckles 28. The towers, designated' by B in Figs. 1 and 2, are thensuccessively erected: and secured by the rods 36 and turn bucklestherefor, as explained. The stringers 39 and headers 17"'and`172 arethen secured in their proper positions to the posts and towers. The netsor netting may then be secured in suitable manner to the frameworkandthereby complete a serviceable trap having members which` may bereadily put in place or removed.

What we claim, is

1. In a {ish-trap of the class described, of pot and heart framescomprised of plurali- 1'10 ties of posts, brackets carried by the upperends of said posts, headers received in said brackets and connecting theupper ends of the posts, socket members Xedly secured in locations toreceive the lower ends oftherespective posts, ears carried by thebrackets and ears carried by the upper ends of the sockets, and rodsconnected to the ears of the brackets and sockets for connectingeach ofthe posts with the socket` provided for the adjacent post and serving tohold the posts in upright positions and also retain the same againstaccidental withdrawal from the socket members.

2. In a fish-trapvof the class described,`of pot and hearty framesconstituted ofspaced posts, a bracket on the top of each post havingU-arms, horizontalV headers received' in said arms and connecting theposts, caps secured to said headers and arms, braces eX- tendingdiagonally between the adjacent Signed at Seattle, Wash., this 2d day ofposts, reinforcing ytrusses for certain of said January 1912.

, posts connecting the socket of a post to its JAMES E. PHARO.

bracket and means whereby the lower ends WILLIAM S. BENJAMIN. 5 of theposts are removably secured to main- Witnesses:

tain the aforesaid frames in operative posi- WH'LIAM H. GORHAM, tionsupon a submerged rock bed. J ENNIE GooDERHAM.

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